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  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  , excruciatingly slow, and unpleasant task no matter how you approach it? Have no ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, this semester, and you can

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... of the 2015 roller coaster (which I rode, and which some of my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  blogosphere. The MIT+K12 Videos Program is managed (and executive produced) by ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make STEM topics more accessible and exciting to a K-12 audience. And Science

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test today, and I was planning to write about tests. But Laura beat me to it ... , build them, and fly them (guess who the cameraperson was on that video? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  's nothing quite like being at home, even if it is just for two weeks, and even ... they get here, and I like sharing with everybody the types of things I do here. My dad follows the blogs very closely as well and the two of us

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  programming languages by that point, and started my first company while in the ... participate in research while they're here - in labs and machine shops and offices and goodness knows what else, on campus and around the world. As

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... business owners, artists, parents, and more. Many students transfer to MIT from community colleges, and others find their way to MIT from private

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  of the GIRs, or historical admissions videos. And it turns out there ... , undergraduate requirements, admission informations, schools and departments, the courses you could take and their required classes, and finally, subject

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence ... makes you feel whole again; one where you are learning and growing all the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... school, and although I made good friends, I always felt a bit isolated ... being frosh (first sem is hard!) and a challenging math class. So I spent

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of Dance. My voice unconsciously rises far too often, and sometimes I realize ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and ... bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  A cold and biting wind claws its way across campus, and a motley ... on the stage, a girl changes into a dress and back into a t-shirt. I do ... meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  bajillion: It's my birthday. Reason 2 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and creativity and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An excess of yummy food is consumed. Reason 4 of 1 bajillion: Nerdiness and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  pass through the 'tute - Obama, Bill Gates, will.i.am, and Lady Gaga ... collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday, we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  never would have ended up at MIT and probably wouldn’t have ended up as a bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... of my favorite poems, all about looking toward the future and starting

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  The first and most important rule of improv is this: don't negate. To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow." -- Neil Armstrong, February ... , structures, and everything else that makes an airplane fly or a rocket orbit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for you, it has been too. The MIT application can be very daunting and, if ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015